Fire safety plans are essential for any building and any company. However, they are doubly important for a manufacturing plant, where there are oftentimes many employees working at the same time, as well as highly valuable manufacturing equipment that needs to be protected from fires. Here’s a quick guide on what you should be including in your fire safety plan for your manufacturing plant.
Key Components of a Fire Safety Plan
A fire safety plan is a long and detailed document that covers how you intend to prevent fires, what you will do in case of a fire, and how to minimize any damage should a fire occur. These plans are specific to each building and business, and manufacturing plants will generally have a more complex plan because of the amount of equipment and people on the premises.
While the document is too extensive to cover in one article, we’ll give you the basics to get you started. Here are the essentials that need to be covered in your plan:
- The emergency procedure in case of a fire, including the sounding of the alarm all the way up to the evacuation of persons and extinguishing of the fire
- Information on the conduction of fire drills
- The information and training that will be given to staff to prepare for fires
- Details on fire prevention in the building
- Maintenance log for fire safety equipment
- Information on the type, location, and operation of fire and emergency systems
- Alternative fire safety measures
Setting Up the Fire Safety Plan
Setting up your fire safety plan is a lot of detailed work, and the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety provides documents and instructions to help you with that task. Creating the fire safety plan for your manufacturing plant will include coming up with all the emergency procedures, fire prevention tactics, as well as communicating with all staff and personnel what to do in case of an emergency.
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